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Election night at The News Leader in Staunton, VA, submitted by Executive Editor David Fritz.

For the first time and in recognition of its 80th anniversary in 2013, APME is offering lifetime memberships for a limited time. You can join this elite group of news industry leaders for just $800 — already, four members have made this commitment to APME. Renew your membership for a year or a lifetime by clicking here.

APME's 2013 conference will be held Oct. 28-30 in Indianapolis

APME will hold its 80th annual conference in Indianapolis Monday, Oct. 28, through Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. For this special anniversary gathering, we will return to Indiana, home of the very first conference in 1933.

Watch APME Update for more information in the months to come.

APME to celebrate NewsTrain's 10th anniversary

The Associated Press Media Editors is launching a special fundraising campaign in support of NewsTrain’s 10th anniversary year in 2013.

The horrifying shooting that left 20 children among 27 dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School would have tested the emotions of the most hardened photographer, much less someone who had been AP's go-to freelancer in Connecticut for just a couple of years.

For Jessica Hill, it was personal. She was born and raised in Connecticut, and she was dismayed by the in-your-face behavior of some of her competitors who descended on her home state to cover the nation's second-deadliest school shooting.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a potential Republican presidential candidate, has campaigned on transparency and blue-chip ethics in government. But when statehouse correspondent Melinda Deslatte beheld the reality behind Jindal’s claims of transparency, she uncovered a great story.

There are as many as 100,000 active missing people cases at any given time in the United States. While a lot of those will be resolved, many families never find any answers.A project by central Missouri GateHouse Media newspapers looked at missing people across a five-county area, with graphics broken down by location, age and years reported missing. The story included descriptions of 19 local people who were reported missing and never found.

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